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== Added JPEG2000ImageIO == | == Added JPEG2000ImageIO == | ||
An ImageIO class specialized on managing JPEG2000 files was added from the Insight Journal paper | |||
* "Support for Streaming the JPEG2000 File Format" | |||
* http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3187 | |||
* http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/741 | |||
Revision as of 21:55, 1 September 2010
Release Notes
This page captures release notes for the intermediate releases of ITKv4
ITK 3-20 Git
This release is simply a Git tag that is equivalent to the stable release of ITK 3.2
ITKv4 Alpha-01
The main changes made in this release are
Removal support for Deprecated Compilers
Code that was intended to provide support for several outdated compilers was removed. The compilers that are no longer supported in ITKv4 are
- Borland 5.5
- Visual Studio 6.0
- Visual Studio 7.0
- SGI CC compilers
- Sun CC 5.6
- Metrowerks
Statistics Framework Updated
The original statistics framework was removed and replaced with the one that was refactored in 2007.
Details on the refactoring process are available at
Refactoring Statistics Framework 2007
and a guide on how to migrate to the new framework is available at
Multi-Threaded Image Registration Metrics Updated
The multi-threaded image registration metrics that were in the Review directory were moved into the standard ITK directories.
Details about the features of these metrics are available at
http://www.na-mic.org/Wiki/index.php/ITK_Registration_Optimization
and has been described in the Insight Journal paper
"Optimizing ITK’s Registration Methods for Multi-processor, Shared-Memory Systems" http://hdl.handle.net/1926/566 http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/172
With this change, the metric
- Mean Squares
- Mattes Mutual Information
will now use the number of threads that you assign them. This will be, by default, equal to the number of cores in your computer.
Some CMake Options Removed
The following CMake configuration options were removed
- ITK_USE_REVIEW_STATISTICS
- ITK_USE_OPTIMIZED_REGISTRATION_METHODS
Adopted Uncrusty
The source code was processed using Uncrustify in order to reformat the coding style according to the following proposal
http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITKv4_StyleChangeProposal
ITKv4 Alpha-02
Updated openjpeg
The openjpeg library in the Utilities directory was updated to the openjpeg-v2 version of July 2010.
Updated to GDCM 2.0
GDCM, the library that provides DICOM support in ITK was updated to GDCM 2.0. Release notes of GDCM 2.0 can be found at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/gdcm/index.php?title=GDCM_Release_2.0#tags
Added JPEG2000ImageIO
An ImageIO class specialized on managing JPEG2000 files was added from the Insight Journal paper
- "Support for Streaming the JPEG2000 File Format"
- http://hdl.handle.net/10380/3187
- http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/741
